AQA GCSE Spanish Speaking Practice

The AQA GCSE Spanish speaking exam (specification 8692, first assessed 2026) has three tasks: a Role-play (approximately 1–1.5 minutes), a Reading aloud section with a short unprepared conversation (approximately 2–2.5 minutes), and a Photo card discussion (approximately 4–5 minutes at Foundation, longer at Higher). You have 15 minutes of supervised preparation time. The Foundation exam lasts 7–9 minutes (50 marks) and is worth 25% of your GCSE.

Yes — you pick your tier in settings and everything adjusts. At Higher, the AI applies stricter expectations around tense range, complexity of opinions, and spontaneous responses. At Foundation, clear communication and basic accuracy are the focus. The scoring criteria change accordingly.

The AQA GCSE Spanish specification (from 2026) is organised around three themes: Theme 1 — People and lifestyle (identity and relationships, healthy living and lifestyle, education and work); Theme 2 — Popular culture (free time activities, customs, festivals and celebrations, celebrity culture); Theme 3 — Communication and the world around us (travel and tourism, media and technology, the environment and where people live). ScoreMySpeech includes questions across all three themes weighted toward the most commonly assessed content.

The AQA Role-play gives you a cue card with tasks to complete in a realistic Spanish-speaking situation. Some tasks ask you to convey a statement, some ask you to ask a question, and one is always an unpredictable element — a spontaneous question from the examiner that you haven't had time to prepare for. This is what catches most students off guard, and ScoreMySpeech includes it in every Role-play session.

Yes. The Photo card discussion shows an image and asks you to describe it, then continues with an unprepared conversation connected to what you said. ScoreMySpeech generates fresh prompts each time so you build the skill of responding spontaneously rather than rehearsing fixed answers — which is exactly what the real exam tests.

AQA's marking criteria reward Communication, Range and Accuracy of Language, and Pronunciation. ScoreMySpeech breaks down your score on all three after each answer and tells you specifically where you're losing marks — for example, only using present tense verbs, or repeating the same connectives. Targeted feedback like this is far more useful than a general sense that you "need to practise more".

Yes. The mock exam mode runs all three AQA tasks — Role-play, Reading aloud and conversation, and Photo card discussion — back-to-back at AQA's official timings, with preparation time built in. No hints, no second attempts — a realistic simulation of what the actual exam feels like from start to finish.